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by rizzom5000 6y ago
I've heard that this is one of the reasons that obesity is a much bigger problem in the US vs. Europe. The way it read was that European countries have much more homogenized cultures where people are more openly shamed for having an un
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by rizzom5000 7y ago
I think the point is that fertilizer makes it possible for big agriculture to operate at a certain scale. If we didn't have fertilizer, farmers would be tending to smaller plots and using locally available fertilizers, such as locally
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by rizzom5000 7y ago
In major cities you'll find that luxury units or condos have in-unit washer and dryer; but below luxury level apartments and condos do not. Nicer places will have a laundry on each floor. Others will have something in the basement or n
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by rizzom5000 7y ago
It's interesting to note that their website was down for hours last Thanksgiving sale. It is estimated they suffered 11M in losses during the outage.
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by rizzom5000 7y ago
According to Mercer, who conducts - 'The quality of living survey is conducted to help governments and major companies place employees on international assignments. The survey also identifies those cities with the highest personal saf
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by rizzom5000 8y ago
> I don't really agree that these questions test debugging skill. In real life if I read a bit of confusing code and get tricked, I will usually know immediately thanks to my IDE, compiler, automated tests, debugger, or behavior of
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by rizzom5000 8y ago
The research I've seen appears to suggest that everyone has both fast twitch and slow twitch muscle fibers and that by doing certain types of exercises you can increase the strength and size of one type more than the other. I'd gu
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by rizzom5000 8y ago
> This statement doesn't make any sense. If you increase the number of software engineers, the average wage will decrease. It also assumes that there will be jobs available. Increasing the supply software engineers does not mean the
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by rizzom5000 8y ago
Maybe, but hire and fire is also a great way to show the team that you don't know what you're doing as a hiring manager; not to mention how firing a team member, who may be incompetent but still well-liked, affects morale. Then, t
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by rizzom5000 8y ago
It appears that you assume more sq. ft. implies higher quality of life. Are you aware of any studies that indicate that's true? I would think that most New Yorkers would consider the traffic mess in a place like Dallas to be an indicat
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by rizzom5000 8y ago
I think you make a valuable point here, but I don't think that quality and productivity are mutually exclusive. I often encounter engineers or teams who are putting just as much time and effort, or more, into 'making it work'
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by rizzom5000 8y ago
Removing macroplastics from the ocean removes the chance of them turning into microplastics. Microplastics are what all the great garbage patch gets broken down into over time, so yes I do think it addresses it. https://en.wikipe
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by rizzom5000 8y ago
I don't disagree, my comment was directed to the problem of the plastic that is already in the ocean. There are many problems that need to be addressed, but plastics are continuing to get poured into the ocean and it doesn't appea
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by rizzom5000 8y ago
These are all good points, but considering that humans are already ingesting microplastics found in seafood and rice, at least someone is trying to do something about the problem. Beach cleanup does not help solve this. It may already be to
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by rizzom5000 8y ago
I disagree, if OP was following too closely the collision would have happened. Instead OP had to take evasive action to avoid collision because driver in front did something unexpected. I look forward to the day that self-driving cards are
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by rizzom5000 8y ago
According to USDOT and NHTSA human error is responsible for 94% of human fatalities involving traffic crashes (including cyclist and pedestrian deaths).
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by rizzom5000 8y ago
Those who have power can freely take wealth e.g. taxation but those who have wealth cannot freely take power. Corrupt politicians might treat power as a free market commodity; but that's still corruption and not a market.
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by rizzom5000 9y ago
> at the end of the day we're both in the same place, no? I think it depends on how you fail though. If you learn something from the experience, your odds of succeeding on the next try increase. Many goals are achieved through a suc
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by rizzom5000 9y ago
I don't think it is. If the > workers DOING THE ACTUAL WORK are able to provide more value than the corporation, then why are they working for the corporation instead of providing more value than the corporation by themselves; and p
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by rizzom5000 9y ago
There is quite a bit of data in the linked article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/whats-c...
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by rizzom5000 9y ago
Interesting. My commute by foot into downtown is 30 minutes/1.5 miles each way every day and I scarcely notice the bikes. I think they're a great idea and hope the idea flourishes.
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by rizzom5000 9y ago
It's also worth noting that these payments are funded by casino revenue for that very small population. This article would look very different if some members of the tribe were taxed heavily to provide the payments to other members.
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This Is What Really Happens When Amazon Comes to Your Town(politico.com)
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by rizzom5000 9y ago
Here's a better article on the same topic: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/19/amazon-hea...
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by rizzom5000 9y ago
>> “In principle, natural selection predicts individuals to behave selfishly” is a faulty premise. I'm fairly certain that cooperating to raise your own offspring is still considered selfish behavior. Something like taking resour
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by rizzom5000 10y ago
Don't forget taxes. Your taxes are 25% higher in San Francisco compared to Seattle.
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by rizzom5000 10y ago
That only makes sense if you're talking about people who are unemployed. As someone who is already employed full-time, I simply don't have the time to solve your problems for free just to see if you'd like to invite me over f
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by rizzom5000 10y ago
If you have a CS degree and cannot answer this type of question in your language of choice, you simply aren't ready for even a junior position in my opinion. This type of coding exercise can potentially answer more questions about the
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by rizzom5000 10y ago
I was thinking something similar when the story originally came out. There simply wasn't any evidence of any wrongdoing by anyone, but the mob was ready to pull out the pitchforks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
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by rizzom5000 10y ago
How productive would you gauge yourself? I find my productivity drops off significantly on days when I have alot of distractions. I suppose I'm being productive in other ways on those days, but sometimes it seems like I've accompl

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